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Unfortunately, climate is not a language, it is a dialect in many tongues.
Ask Mr Slingo.........It is the art of the cunning linguist!
Very funny!
Charles Berlitz phrases from sceptical climatics for travelers.
My windmill has bankrupted the nation.
The red button of my aunt is on the table.
Can you please direct me to the Met Office, I wish to issue a complaint.
Nice one Josh, but it was ZT brought me to tears..
Frosty, I agree, v funny zt, I can see a whole phrase book in the offing.
My windmill has been struck by lightning.
My Postillion requests a subsidy.
Doctor. My climate proxy keeps shrinking every time I check. Is the Ice Age coming or am I in trouble?
"My hovercraft is full of eels. Is the warming of global to be blamed?"
"Your turbine rotations have minced my canary".
LMFAO. Very good Sir!
Excellent, Josh ... and so inspiring ...
"A thick brown cloud hovered over a hazy bog"
"Now is the time for all climatologists to come to the aid of the hockey stick"
Definitely inspiring stuff from Josh.
Has there been a gentle sitcom based on the Met Office in the UK yet? Seems to have all the necessary elements (hair brained eccentrics, national calamities, unerring ability to conjure absurdity from the mundane, politics, familiar subject matter to all viewers, stupendous bonuses, a computer the size of Norwich). A first draft script could probably be obtained by concatenating forecasts and the corresponding actual weather reports for any given time period.
"The wind does not blow my generation"
With apologies to Shakespeare.
Phillip, that is just wonderful!
Josh has pointed the way to a new subject for our school science and geography (and goodness knows what other subjects) departments burdened with the party line on climate. I can't find a name yet, but something like 'ClimateSpeak Studies' might do. The less able pupils would only do ClimateSpeak, since any distraction would reduce their already low chances of passing exams. But the best pupils will also be able to enjoy proper studies, learning about real science, and, for example, the wondrous complexity of the climate system. They would also do the ClimateSpeak stuff for the mundane chore of passing exams. Their joy, their delight in pursuing truth and insight, their sense of intellectual freedom and power, would come from their proper studies. They would, en passant, develop a deep contempt for government control of curricula. But I grow heavy, and this thread is good and light. And very funny. Thanks Josh! Thanks Bish!
..... most recently, we helped NASA find the lost city of Cobija, Bolivia
http://climateaudit.org/2008/05/09/where-did-ipcc-1990-figure-7c-come-from-httpwwwclimateauditorgp3072previewtrue/
.... we observed that the rain in Maine fell mainly in the Seine
http://climateaudit.org/2008/11/09/the-rain-in-spain/
.... Apparently the drought was caused when a discombobulation of the ENSO Modoki teleconnection transmogrified the rainfall into a distillation of the Johnny Walker spirulation at the convention center on Hayman Island during the post-positive phase of Pacific decadal osculation.
http://landshape.org/enm/drought-oops/
There are so many of them. School reports are already showing the effect.
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